Hi Mark! I hope you are having a great weekend. I don't know if you can pass this message to the team that handles reprints to put in the to-reprint list the ten common cards that still had a old frame on the Pauper Cube: Deftblade Elite, Phantom Nomad, Capsize, Miscalculation, Ashes to Ashes, Pestilence, Tortured Existence, Silver Drake, Temporal Spring and Cavern Harpy. Thanks!

I’ll pass the list along.

I ran out of text space. I meant cards like Forbidden Orchard in Massacre Girl, Nomad Stadium in Darien, or Sorrow's Path in Enrage decks. Drawbacks that are drawbacks in 99% of decks, but good on rare occasions because they are one of the few cards that do that thing some other card cares about. I'm asking for more weird, one of a kind drawbacks, including ones that are bafflingly awful until someone figures it out.

Players do like drawbacks you can turn into a positive with proper deck building, but usually a bit more of the time than 1%. What you’re asking for is mostly just cards with big downsides which are pretty unpopular. We make them on occasion, but not often.

There is a second Celtic plane that we've seen. It's called Ir and was hinted at in Future sight and has shown up in Planechase and Commander. It's the world Fomori Nomad and Ruhan of the Fomori are from

FYI

Regarding if Desert Nomads were in Amonkhet, do you guys strongly consider things like that that you know people would want and make people happy, or do you just dismiss them for silly reasons like "Protection and landwalk aren't ever green any more, we haven't done those abilities in a while, and there are no other cards in the set with those abilities?" No one who plays magic, new or old, would get a broken brain over how those abilities work or thay no other creature in the set has them.

Our goal is to make people happy while still doing things like using keywords we currently support and upholding the color pie.

what I meant by "different and distinct cultures" was a series of factions that are clearly different people groups, and very much exist in different areas of the plane. like tarkir, they had monks on the mountain tops, warriors who charged across the plains, nomads, surviving in the frozen tundra, schemers, who plotted in jungles and swamps, and survivors, who marched across the deserts. these weren't just different factions, they were extremely different cultures existing on the same world.

I believe we’ll do that again but it will probably require some kind of factioning.

The land Desert was printed with the Desert subtype. This allowed it to be referenced on the cards Camel (Desert deals no damage to it) and Desert Nomads (which has desertwalk and also isn't dealt damage by Desert). My question is: Would you ever print a land with a non-basic subtype in modern Magic?

If there was a good mechanical design reason, sure.

Someone mentioned the "Livewire Lash" effect for red. To make it a full mechanic, I think it needs to be scaled back and read, "Whenever CARDNAME becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time in a turn EFFECT." Allows for better effects without Nomads en-Kor ruining the day.

It would have to be the target of a spell or ability controlled by an opponent.